Agreed... I dont feel the Inbreeding has much to do with it..... Bobs and other new world quail have been domesticated literally thousands of years less than old world quail... I feel this is why the new worlds remember their wild ancestors alot better than coturnix. Makes them less likely to tame and become comfortable be'n held as well. I also feel this is why, thou not common, bobs are more likely to go broody than cots, if given a natural like enclosure...... Odds are still against one successfully brooding and hatching in a captive setting. But the instinct to do so is still much stronger. Coturnix are much like pineapples, the reproduction instinct has been all but lost.
I do know of several breeders than have bobs do it every year.... almost exclusively these are raised in very large, ground pens with lots of cover...
